What is Academic Coaching?

As an Academic Coach I support and collaborate with students to create customized systems, habits, routines and strategies as they develop their Executive Functioning Skills and work towards achieving their goals. I also work on developing study skills, and on stress management to help them create a school/life balance.

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Executive Function Skills:

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Time Management & Organization

Planning & Prioritization

Task Initiation, Focus & Follow Through

Goal Setting

Self-Regulation

Transitions

Working Memory

Metacognition (Self-Awareness)

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Study Skills: 

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Strategic Learning & Studying

Note-taking

Assignment/Test/Exam Planning

Test-Taking Strategies

Critical Thinking

Independent Problem Solving

Self Advocacy

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Self Regulation & Stress Management

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Identify individual stressors, as everyone has unique stressors

Identify and work on customized healthy ways to reduce stress

Learn some science on how excessive stress affects the mind and body

Recover and Restore to create balance and overall well-being

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Academic Coaching Versus Tutoring?

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Traditional tutoring focuses on working with students who are having difficulty with the content of a specific subject. As an Academic coach, I help students successfully navigate the entire school experience, as they develop their Executive Functioning and Study Skills while learning to management their stress in healthy ways. These skills can be carried through to adulthood.